«Hey, what's your name?»: anthroponymics in the language picture of the world of Jim Morrison

In the article the anthroponyms are considered, as one of the key fragments of the language picture of the world of American poet and musician Jim Morrison. The symbolism of names, which is important for all lingual cultures, in the poetics of Jim Morrison is manifested in a special way, because of his specific perception of the people, especially the women, with who Jim Morrison had not the simple relation, caused by specific life of rock-musician in California of the flower revolution epoch. In the Jim Morrison's linguistic picture of the world the elements of European (Antic, Germanic, Celtic) culture and culture of North American Indians are invented. Jim Morrison has created also his own cultural code, American one, more exactly, a code of California, and the appropriate poetics of myths, that is reflected in his poetic texts. Therefore, the anthroponyms in the lyrics by Jim Morrison reflect all these cultural codes. In the article the most interesting cases of inclusion of the anthropo-nyms in the lyrics are presented. English quotations from the songs are accompanied by Russian translations made by the author.

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